"McLU" 2007 Obituary

McLUHAN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-04 published
CARRIÈRE,
MarylynR. (née
HILL)
At her home in Birr, Ontario surrounded by her loving family
and Friends, Marylyn R.
(HILL)
CARRIÈRE, formerly of Sault Ste. Marie,
in the arms of her loving husband René, on Monday, December 18,
2006 in her 60th year. Proud and loving mother of their son Jeromy
and his special wife Jeannie of Boston. Doting Grammie of Julia
and Nathan. Dear sister-in-law of Lillianne and Doug
KING,
PaulineMYKULAK and Claude and Kelly
CARRIÈRE all of Thunder Bay. Missed
by cousins Doctor Charles and Jeanne
SMITH of England and Irja and
Art DEWAR and Harold
SALMINEN all of Sault. Ste. Marie. Also
missed by several nieces and nephews. Cherished lifelong friend
of Brian MIDDLETON and his special partner Carl
McLUHAN of British
Columbia, very dearest friend of Frank and Mary
IANNI of Sault
Ste.Marie, buddy and confidant of Sherri Jo
KING of England
and special new friend of Terry and Eileen
HORTH of Birr. Predeceased
by her parents Lily and Ernie
HILL and her mother and father-in-law
Jeanne and Archille
CARRIÈRE.
Friends may call at Saint_John the
Divine Anglican Church, Arva from 11: 30 a.m. until the time of
a memorial service which will be held on Saturday, January 6th
at 1 p.m. with The Rev. Wendy
MURRAY officiating. Inurnment Saint_John
the Divine Columbarium. Donations to Saint_John the Divine Anglican
Church, Arva, or Middlesex Elgin Victorian Order of Nurses Palliative
Care would be appreciated by the family. Memorial picture board
may be viewed and condolences may be forwarded through www.haskettfh.com.
Arrangements entrusted to C. Haskett and son Funeral Home, Lucan,
1-877-227-4211. Book of Proverbs 31: 10-31

McCLUNG o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-07-05 published
Dead grim reminder to buckle up
Of the 80 people killed this year on area roads, 24 weren't belted
in.
By April KEMICK, Sun Media, Thurs., July 5, 2007
Why aren't motorists buckling up?
That's the question nagging local police after an alarming 24th
seatbelt-related death this year on area roads.
Timothy McCLUNG of Camlachie, who died Saturday after being thrown
from his vehicle in Sarnia, was the latest victim in a string
of deaths that police say may have been prevented by seatbelt
use.
Out of 80 people killed on area roads this year, 24 were not
wearing seatbelts, said Sgt. Dave Rektor of the Ontario Provincial
Police's Western Region.
"Not wearing a seatbelt and being involved in a crash is the
equivalent of jumping off a three-storey building," Rektor said.
"Why people still aren't wearing seatbelts is the million-dollar
question."
It's been more than 30 years since wearing a seatbelt became
law in Ontario, and, despite consistent public awareness campaigns
and police blitzes, some drivers still refuse to buckle up, Rektor
said.
A 2005-2006 survey by Transport Canada shows that somewhere between
nine and 10 per cent of motorists don't use seatbelts.
In Ontario, not wearing a seatbelt carries a $110 fine and will
get you two demerit points on your licence, he said.
"In terms of enforcement and education, we're just as vigilant
as we ever were," Rektor said. "And yet, there's still… people
that refuse to wear seatbelts."
A shocking 30 per cent of the 80 deaths on area roads this year
were linked to people not wearing seatbelts, he said.
"That's 24 people that could have been alive," Rektor said. "It's
very frustrating."
Paul BOASE, chief, road users, with Transport Canada, said while
there's been big gains in the numbers of people wearing seatbelts
since it became law, some people still resist buckling up.
Some possible explanations:
- Young people, particularly young males, who don't wear seatbelts
might be under the impression they're "invincible" and don't
need to buckle up.
- Impaired drivers are more likely not to buckle up than people
who are not impaired
- Some drivers -- including a higher percentage of those in rural
areas and people making short trips just around the corner --
are more likely to believe the chances of crashing and getting
hurt are low
- Some drivers wrongly believe their air bags will be enough
to save them in a crash
- People sitting in the backseat can have a false sense of safety
because of their position in the back of the car
- Some drivers simply resist being told what to do by the state
But regardless of the reason behind not wearing a seatbelt, the
hard fact is that your chances of dying in a crash are higher
if you don't buckle up, he said.
"You're much more likely to survive if you have your belt on."
The National Occupant Restraint Program, a joint effort by federal,
provincial and territorial governments, aims to bring seatbelt
use across the nation to 95 per cent by 2010.
More police enforcement, tougher laws and public awareness campaigns
targeting those who don't buckle up are needed to make that goal,
said Shannon Ell, chairperson of National Occupant Restraint
Program.

McCLURE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-09 published
Smooth defenceman got high by winning
Denied National Hockey League stardom, he won Olympic silver
and studied on the side
By Tom HAWTHORN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Darryl SLY never won a Stanley Cup and never held a permanent
job in the National Hockey League. His career statistics were
uninspiring - 79 games played, one goal, two assists.
A versatile player known as Slippery Sly for his smooth skating,
he played professionally for 22 seasons and worked behind the
bench as a coach for several more. Over those years, he wore
sweaters for towns that no longer exist (Galt, Ontario, now Cambridge)
and for teams long defunct (the original Iowa Stars).
Mr. SLY was a valuable asset on any hockey roster. As an amateur,
he skated for Canada at the 1960 Winter Olympics (winning a silver
medal), and he represented his country at the 1961 world championships
(winning gold). As a professional, he helped a powerhouse Rochester
Americans squad win three consecutive Calder Cup titles in the
mid-1960s.
Originally a forward with a good touch around the net, he was
converted into a defenceman whose tenacious play made him a favourite
of goaltenders.
With Rochester, he was paired on the ice and in road hotel rooms
with a pugnacious defenceman of equal heart but lesser skill:
"Darryl SLY carried me for six years, his skating was that good,"
said Don Cherry, who went on to greater success as a hockey commentator.
"Whenever the puck was dumped into our end, I'd say, 'Go get
it, Darryl.' "
But success eluded Mr.
SLY in hockey's premier league. He played
only two games in the pre-expansion National Hockey League and,
after the league doubled in teams, he dressed for only 77 games
with Toronto, Minnesota and Vancouver.
Darryl Hayward
SLY learned his hockey in his hometown, a popular
Ontario resort on Georgian Bay. He led the Collingwood Cubs to
the Ontario juvenile-A title shortly before his 17th birthday.
It would be the first championship of many.
He spent the following three seasons in Toronto at Saint Michael's
College School, the Catholic institution that graduated more
hockey players than priests. His teammates included Dave Keon
and Frank Mahovlich. Coached by Rev. David Bauer, the boys were
tutored to combine academic achievement with athletic endeavour.
Mr. SLY attended teachers college in his final season with the
St. Mike's Majors, during which he served as team captain. St.
Mike's lost to Peterborough in the junior-A finals.
TheNationalHockey League's Toronto Maple Leafs offered Mr.
SLY
a $3,500 salary with a $1,500 signing bonus, an attractive sum
on its own, all the more so for a graduating student contemplating
a career as a teacher. Instead, he accepted Father Bauer's advice
to remain an amateur, playing for the Kitchener-Waterloo (Ont.)
Dutchmen, a senior team.
The Dutchies were coached by Bill Durnan, the former Montreal
Canadiens goaltender, but he quit after a losing streak. Bobby
Bauer, an National Hockey League star and the brother of Father
Bauer, was reluctantly pressed into service.
The Dutchmen were chosen to represent Canada at the Olympics
after the Allan Cup-winning Whitby (Ont.) Dunlops declined. The
Dunlops bolstered the Dutchies' lineup by contributing a forward
line and defenceman Harry Sinden, who would be named captain
of the Olympic squad.
The team travelled by bus for two weeks, playing exhibitions
across Western Canada before arriving at Squaw Valley, California.
His lone goal in the Olympic tournament came when he opened the
scoring against Czechoslovakia, a tally that would be the game-winner
as Canada posted a 4-0 victory. He also earned an assist.
The team's hopes for a gold medal diminished when the U.S. team,
cheered on by 8,000 partisans, scored a 2-1 upset. The decisive
goal was scored by Paul Johnson, who was being covered on the
play by Mr.
SLY.
The Americans went on to strike gold and the Canadians had to
make do with silver.
Mr. SLY played for the Galt Terriers the following season, a
team formed from the remnants of the Dutchmen. The team nearly
folded at Christmas, struggling in last place. Midway through
the season, Mr.
SLY was invited to temporarily join the Trail
(B.C.) Smoke Eaters. The club had been chosen to represent Canada
at the world championships in Switzerland.
Granted a three-month leave from his job as a teacher in Elmira,
Ontario, Mr.
SLY began an odyssey that saw him travel to British
Columbia for a few games before flying back through Toronto on
his way to Europe.
The Smoke Eaters went undefeated in the tournament at Geneva,
the only blemish a 1-1 tie with the Czechs. The Canadians clinched
the championship with a 5-1 victory over the Soviets. Afterward,
a reporter found an exhausted Mr.
SLY slumped on a bench in the
dressing room. He said he was "bushed, but I am about the happiest
guy in the world."
After his 10-week hiatus with the Trail team, the world-beating
defenceman returned to the Galt blueline. His return was a happy
one - he had four goals and six assists in 12 Allan Cup playoff
games, helping his team claim the national senior title. An ecstatic
home crowd prevented the victors from reaching their dressing
room for 20 minutes after the game. The championship came just
six weeks after his return from overseas.
Mr. SLY then turned professional with the Rochester Americans,
an American Hockey League team that was home for seven seasons.
Although playing in a minor league, the Amerks, as they were
known, were widely regarded as being strong enough to compete
in the six-team National Hockey League.
Rochester won three consecutive Calder Cups as league champs
with a roster packed with high-calibre talent, from National
Hockey League players winding up their careers to young stars
with promising futures. The team also produced future National
Hockey League coaches in Mr. Cherry and fellow defenceman Al
Arbour.
A Maple Leafs' call-up in December of 1965 lasted just two games,
with Mr. SLY assigned penalty-killing duties. It was not an auspicious
debut.
Despite his many road trips, Mr.
SLY completed English studies
at Saint_John Fisher College in Rochester in 1966. Newspapers carried
stories on his achievement, so rare was an educated skater. "Darryl
Sly," The Globe and Mail noted, "is one hockey player who is
improving by degrees."
The doubling of the National Hockey League before the 1967-68
season gave Mr.
SLY hope he would be drafted by one of the six
new American teams. Instead, he was passed over.
"My chances of making the National Hockey League would have been
a lot better. My pay, too," he said while at Toronto's training
camp, which, as usual, boasted a surfeit of quality defencemen.
He saw limited action in 17 games with the Leafs that season,
recording no points.
His rights were transferred to the Vancouver Canucks of the Western
Hockey League after the club purchased the Syracuse franchise.
He took on the role of assistant coach even as he maintained
a regular spot on the ice. The Canucks won eight consecutive
playoff games to claim the Lester Patrick Cup as league champion.
The National Hockey League's Minnesota North Stars spent $30,000 to
pluck Mr. SLY from the Canucks in the 1969 inter-league draft.
He scored his lone National Hockey League goal while wearing
Minnesota's sweater for 29 games.
He returned to Vancouver the following season, as the new Canucks
National Hockey League franchise grabbed him in the expansion
draft. He was Vancouver's sixth pick and third defenceman, after
Gary Doak and Pat Quinn.
By 1971, he was again playing senior hockey in Ontario as the
playing coach of the Barrie Flyers. He led them to four Allan
Cup finals in five seasons - losing to Spokane in 1972 and 1976,
and to Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 1975. The Flyers took the senior
championship by knocking off the Cranbrook (B.C.) Royals in 1974.
In 1973, his old team, the Rochester Americans, asked him to
return for a single game to fill a hole on defence. Mr.
SLY responded
by playing perhaps the greatest game of his career, scoring a
goal and adding two assists in a 3-3 tie.
After hanging up his skates at 39, Mr.
SLY took up the coaching
reins of the amateur Collingwood Shipbuilders, winning an intermediate-A
title in 1983 and a senior-A title in 1987.
Mr. SLY was prominent in his hometown as a real-estate developer
and owner of the Blue Mountain Chrysler automobile dealership.
He was inducted into the Collingwood Sports Hall of Fame in 1980 and
was an inaugural member of the Amerks Hall of Fame in 1986.
Mr. SLY once told The Globe's Nora McCabe that he enjoyed coaching
unpaid players who, like him, simply loved hockey. "Some guys
drink and some guys take dope to get high," he said. "Amateur
hockey players get high by winning."
Darryl SLY was born April 3, 1939, in Collingwood, Ontario He
died of cancer August 28, 2007, in Collingwood. He was 68. He
leaves his wife, Sylvia
(McCLURE,) a daughter, two sons, five
grandchildren and two brothers. He was predeceased by two brothers.

McCLURE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-22 published
HUFFMAN,
M.John "
Jack"
Peacefully on December 17, 2007 at age 85. Beloved husband for
59 years of Doreen
OLIVER.
Loving father to Ken (Julia,) Bob
(Ona) and Jane
CHABAN
(Mark.)
Devoted and playful Gramps of Tom
and Jack, Nancy and Alanna and Willy and Michael. Dear brother
of Bert, Cecil and Ray
HUFFMAN.
Predeceased by his parents Milo
HUFFMAN and Gladys
McCLURE and sister Mary
McDONALD.
Born in
Blairmore, Alberta and raised in Calgary, Lethbridge and Regina,
Jack served four years in the Canadian Army (Calgary Highlanders)
in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Netherlands. Jack had a 34-year
career with Imperial Oil in Alberta and Toronto and played a
role in the evolution of the industry in Western Canada. In retirement
Jack and Doreen explored the world and Canada, with lots of special
times with family and Friends near and far. Jack had a wonderful
sense of humour and was an enthusiastic, and sometimes successful,
golfer, bridge and gin player, skier, and photographer. Special
note of thanks to Lakeshore Lodge for the care and compassion
over the past four years. A celebration of Jack's life will take
place Saturday, January 5 at 1100 with reception to follow, at
St. Luke's United Church, Kipling @ The Kingsway, Etobicoke.
In lieu of flowers the family appreciates donations to St. Luke's
United Church Memorial Fund, the Alzheimer Society or the Parkinson
Society of Canada.